A pueblo (or población) is just a populated place or settlement. An ejido is a
parcel of agricultural land cooperatively-held by its residents. An ejido, as
an organized entity, is more economic than governmental. There are no local
governments apart from the municipios. Each is governed by an elected council
called the "Ayuntamiento" and a "Presidente Municipal."
The web sites of the various state governments typically have a section on their
municipios. Most states have a separate web page for each municipio, naming its
officials, some local information, and sometimes a map.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "adamnvillani" <avillani@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 5:06 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: FW: [roadgeek] Online maps of Mexican Municipios?
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> The Mexican federal constitution requires the states to organize
> themselves into municipios as the sole unit of local government.
> As you have gathered, they are more analogous to counties than to
> municipalities. There are no incorporated municipalities in the
> American sense.
Interesting... so the pueblos and ejidos and such don't have their own
governments?
> Highly detailed 2004 transportation and communications
infrastructure > maps of each of the 31 states and the Distrito
Federal are found
> on-line at http://dgp.sct.gob.mx/index.php?id=440 in the Atlas por
> Entidad Federativa of the federal SecretarÃa de Comunicaciones y
> Transportes. Municipios are shown. These maps are very large
> zoomable PDF files, best suited to broadband downloading.
Excellent. This is just what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. I should
start reading this group more regularly again. :-)
Adam
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